By Humeyra Pamuk and Kanishka Singh<\/p>\n
WASHINGTON, June 24 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday it may never be known who was \u200cat fault for a deadly strike on a girls’ school in \u200cIran on February 28, the first day of the Iran war, that killed scores of children.<\/p>\n
Reuters \u200bfirst reported in March that an initial internal U.S. military investigation showed U.S. forces were likely responsible for the fatal strike in Minab in southern Iran. The Pentagon has since elevated the probe but it has not acknowledged any preliminary findings.<\/p>\n
“I \u200cdon’t know that they \u2060are ever going to solve that problem,” Trump told reporters.<\/p>\n
“I don’t know that they are ever going to solve that problem \u2060in terms of whose fault was it because there were missiles flying all over the place, and it’s horrible what happened but there were missiles flying all over the \u200bplace,” \u200bhe said.<\/p>\n
“Somebody said it was our missile, \u200bmaybe it wasn’t our missile but \u200cI have seen nothing to lead me to believe it was,” Trump remarked, adding: “I don’t think it was us.”<\/p>\n
The strike on February 28, when the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran, killed more than 175 children and teachers, according to Iranian officials.<\/p>\n
The strike may be the result of U.S. use of outdated targeting \u200cdata, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters \u200bin March.<\/p>\n
Deliberately attacking a school would likely be \u200ba war crime under international \u200bhumanitarian law. U.S. officials have publicly said Washington would not \u200cdeliberately target a school.<\/p>\n
The strike caused \u200bglobal outrage. The U.N. \u200bhuman rights office called it “absolutely horrific.”<\/p>\n
Trump initially claimed, without evidence, Iran was responsible. He has since said he does not know enough about the \u200bstrike, that an investigation \u200cis ongoing, that he will accept the results of the inquiry \u200band that “nobody” purposefully attacked the school.<\/p>\n
(Reporting by Humeyra Pamuk and Kanishka \u200bSingh in Washington; Editing by Sanjeev Miglani)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Humeyra Pamuk and Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, June 24 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[32135,38,54187,34,196,9221,4570,9343],"class_list":["post-177851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran","tag-deadly-strike","tag-donald-trump","tag-girls39-school","tag-iran","tag-iran-war","tag-military-investigation","tag-southern-iran","tag-the-pentagon"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116813766501903261","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}